#Areas of Knowledge

[excellenthomevlasses]

The Importance of IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Tutoring

The IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is a unique component of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, challenging students to think critically about how knowledge is constructed, shared, and evaluated. TOK encourages deep reflection on diverse perspectives and the underlying assumptions that shape our understanding of the world. However, TOK’s abstract and interdisciplinary nature often…

[excellenthomeclasses1]

The Importance of IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Tutoring

The IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is a unique component of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, challenging students to think critically about how knowledge is constructed, shared, and evaluated. TOK encourages deep reflection on diverse perspectives and the underlying assumptions that shape our understanding of the world. However, TOK’s abstract and interdisciplinary nature often…

[itadooori]

s2 gihun with s1 characters PLEASE

wait i love this concept omfg

[yinyuedijun]

dedication to selfshipping is expanding your knowledge of ancient history so you can find a historically plausible reason to fuck that guy nasty

[thefawnfallacy]

I know it’s generally in good fun when making jokes about how young fujoshi in the early 2000s-2010s talked about queer couples (i.e. “yuri couple, yaoi couple, i see no difference love is love” or “if you police people’s identities you are not yaoiful at all”) but if you look at it from the lens of acknowledging that this, for many of them, is their first time even realising being queer was an option, it’s a very interesting study in realising that this is an attempt at inclusion from the perspective of someone who may not have ever heard of things like gender identity or sexuality beyond “boy” and “girl”.

[zenathezee]

I don't understand why everyone was so surprised Brennan and Katie studied without knowing they'd be doing it all again. If you just badly failed naming a basic thing on a competitive TV show, of course you'd go home and look up all the fucking pasta shapes you completely blanked on

[reality-detective]

Sabrina Wallace speaking on Technology that has been around for at least 20 years such as WBAN (whole body area networks)

If you don't know who she is, this rabbit hole is deep.

Her rumble account👇

Happy Digging 🤔

[mirith]

Not me realizing size 50 thread (pictured) is smol and size 80 thread (not pictured, in the mail on its way to me) will make me suffer in new ways.

[shallowseeker]

I love when Sam is dumb, Dean is lazy, Cas is mean, or Jack is ruthless. It’s like getting your favorite skittle from a bag.

[that-butch-archivist]

"The New York Femmes, 1991" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, edited by Joan Nestle

[toyalove]

ok i saw this post that resurfaced that went like "a loving relationship between a guy who says wowza and a guy who says hm intriguing" EXCEPT PERSONALLY I THINK TOYA IS BOTH AND IT HEAVILY DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION

take toya to the arcade to play his favourite games and he'll be a WOWZA guy. let toya experience something for the first time and watch him succeed on his own he'll be a WOWZA guy.

but let toya sit there and observe the world around him, let him hyperfocus and be 100% absorbed in his hobbies like reading, he's a hm intriguing guy.

he's so pure hearted. you can take the below video as an example of WOWZA toya 🥺🥺 look at his sparkles

[muffingnf]

my truth is that i hate sarah simons more than i hate tommyinnit and jack manifold combined.

[hyperfixate-on-ninjas]

Gonna Rant for a bit

Okay so I love AUs/Headcanons where the Ninja seriously hold a ton of OP levels when it comes to their Elements.

Like the very few headcanon fics where Nya is capable of Bloodbending. Or @pillowdrawz’s Abaddon AU where Cole can Metalbend and stuff.

The most fascinating ones are the Jay ones with again @pillowdrawz’s Abaddon AU with Jay manipulating the electricity in the brain and @writing-hat’s Bending But Never Breaking (Please do not read this if you are uncomfortable with reading certain topics. This fic is graphic if you’re curious just read the tags before you read the fic) fic where he could control the nerves in his own body. (Which inspired a headcanon for me that Jay can stop his heart for a few seconds then resuscitate himself)

And it fascinates me how creative people can get if they just took the rules, break them or get creative with what they already know about their powers. Cause if Jay can redirect Lightning and Nya can apparently talk to fish or Cole can see which way to go if he focuses on the earth or Zane can allow people some foresight vision (You know that Ice slab that allowed Vex to see where the Ninja were?) if they were pushed to their limits then the rules are endless to what they could possibly do.

So got me thinking about something, the ones with the least headcanons for their powers is Kai and Lloyd.

Kai I can understand, there’s only so much you can do with Fire. I’ve had it that he can redirect Fire or make someone else’s Fire his own. But that’s about as far as I can go with his powers and if the Legacy Shorts are canon then Kai can already do that- (Was it the Legacy Shorts??? Idk I don’t remember anymore) so most of my headcanons of him are just ‘Fire Resistance’ ‘Hair catches on Fire when mad’ Etc Etc.

It’s really hard to come up with a headcanon for Kai. We could borrow some things from Avatar: The Last Airbender, like Kai’s fire possibly turning blue or getting multicolored. Or him being able to briefly control lightning like Nya can control ice. But again…

That’s about as far as you can go…

And so the one with the most potential but the least amount of Headcanons is Lloyd.

And this one is by far understandable.

The most headcanons I’ve seen of Lloyd are usually one-off or taken as suggestions, like Lloyd being able to Heal People and Himself (Saw the Healing Headcanon in a fic but it was just a minor mention.) or Lloyd being able to absorb the Energy of Life which is why he’s mega powerful. (Which is why I find the naming thing extremely silly because people had been making headcanons about Lloyd’s powers that are synonymous with both Life and Energy BEFORE the name reveal and then suddenly no one is okay with the name change when they’ve been using Life and Energy synonymously. Especially since this is like the FOURTH suggestion of the name of Lloyd’s Powers one was a JOKE from the movie because literally no one knows what the hell Lloyd’s powers are)

There’s one Headcanon in a fic called ‘Lloyd’s Guide to Surviving the Merge (and finding new family through it)’ (Forgot who the @ was on Tumblr sorry-) Where Lloyd could ‘feel’ the Ninjas and could possibly feel if they were dead. But not sure if that’s something he could ACTUALLY do in the fic but it’s an interesting concept.

But again, Lloyd despite being the most powerful of the Ninja has the least Headcanons when it comes to his powers and most of the time they’re really one-off or a suggestion to the fandom on how his powers work.

And I get why.

He’s been main charactering the whole series for a while, it makes sense why people don’t want to pay that much attention to him because…

He already gets that much attention out here even unnecessarily let’s be real. (Lloyd Ily you’re my favorite character but they seriously have to let you take a backseat man, ESPECIALLY now that you’re being thrown into traumaland every 5 seconds.)

But secondly…

If we did push his limits and break the rules for him, the same way we do for Nya, Jay, Cole and Zane…uhm…

Maybe it’s best that Lloyd was nerfed in the series because holy fuck. Lloyd would be TERRIFYING.

In fact I like the Headcanon that the Ninja seriously hold back when it comes to their powers because they would be terrifying to think about if they were allowed to be lethal, if they were allowed to fully obliterate their enemies.

I swear the Tournament of Sources would end differently if the Ninja were as lethal as the headcanons.

I’ve had a ton of headcanons about Lloyd’s powers for a while, and a lot of them I don’t share because as much as the concept is terrifying, it makes Lloyd wayy to powerful to exist man. Many of them I just straight up turned him into god at this point.

And it’s not my fault that his powers are INTERESTING but the writers just chop it down to him blasting energy everywhere, I mean canonically in the Wilfilm Era of Ninjago he could create a shield that was both Offensive and Defensive. Especially since he shot himself off the Destiny’s Bounty, created a shield around himself, and threw himself upon Chen’s Anacondrai Cult Army like a fucking canonball.

So as a result I’ve had a ton of Headcanons for Lloyd’s powers. But some of them can be nonsensical cause they make me break the canon a lot to the point Lloyd feels like an OC than a pre-existing character so I don’t show them much. But damn some of these headcanons that DO make sense are terrifying to think about sometimes.

[deservedgrace]

i really do think something a lot of people (especially christians) don't understand is that atheism only answers one question: do you believe god(s) exist? atheism says nothing about ideology or beliefs held, it's simply an answer to that one question. the only thing you know for sure two atheists have in common is that they both don't believe in the existence of gods. there are atheist scientists and there are atheists that are anti-science. there are lgbtq atheists and there are anti-lgbtq atheists. there are right wing atheists and left wing atheists. "atheists believe [xyz]" is almost always nonsensical because atheism is not an ideology with things to believe in. "atheists believe in science" is just as true as "atheists don't believe in science" because atheism answers ONE question and people with all kinds of ideologies and beliefs and identities are atheists.

[whomstsnek]

yknow what i think one of my favorite things about how the Avantris crew handles RP is how well they differentiate meta player knowledge and in-universe character knowledge. like I feel like that is such a hard thing to balance and I love the commitment to "I know that this will be a bad choice, but my character doesn't, so he's gonna do it anyways"

[bisexualjonahsimms]

we do not talk enough about how smart sweets is, my boy has two doctorates by the age a lot of people are just finishing up their undergrad